At one time a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions. An old sly Fox, seeing this, said, “May I never make myself so ridiculous as you do in your pride and self-conceit; for even though you have the size of a lion among wolves, in a herd of lions you are definitely a wolf.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–560 BCE, whose fables have shaped moral literature across cultures for over two millennia. "The Wolf and the Fox" is a compact example of his signature style — a single, ironic observation delivered through animals, leaving the moral to sting rather than lecture.
